Ironies Too

A continuing chronicle of how democracy is being destroyed across the entire European Union.
This blog is henceforth exploring various means whereby democracy may now be restored within or to the EU's formerly independent nation states now that economic chaos looms following the euro currency's apparently deliberate self-destruction, as long predicted on this blog? (Changed 23/11/10)

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Anti-Semitism is it a by-product of the EU? What now?

Almost eleven years ago I marked the first birthday of my first blog with the following post, copied and pasted as it first appeared, as it is no longer readily accessible on line:

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Sunday, February 22, 2004

A First Anniversary look at Europe

Ironies will be one year old tomorrow. Time to consider why I blog and whether or not I should continue?

As the European Union broadens and deepens, and refuses to confront
the consequences of its non-democratic structures; instead substituting
individual freedoms and pride in national achievements with a false
sense of 'Europeanness' and affection for symbols and anthems that
strike no chords in peoples' hearts, a strange tendency towards unspoken
and therefore hypocritical intolerance is in danger of being fostered
among its people.

Lack of accountability from its leaders, with the blurred edges of
responsibility between national and european bodies, allows festering
sores to grow within society as exampled by the decision last week to
expel 25,000 failed asylum seekers from Holland. Politicians both
national and european are therefore inevitably being seen as the cause
of the problems and increasingly also sickeningly corrupt.

In a church in Toulouse, the Christmas before last, I saw around a
nativity scene and in various other parts of the church, supposed
Christmas decorations in the form of drawings and paintings from
school-children, who I would guess would have been aged between seven
and twelve, depicting in gruesome detail scenes from the Middle-East
that could only be described as 'bloodily anti-semitic'. I was
horrified and the memory and fear of the consequences of such subliminal
propaganda has no doubt been sometimes reflected in the postings to
this blog.

The following report is taken from "The Times" and must serve as a warning to us all:-
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EU challenged to stamp out anti-Semitism
From Rory Watson in Brussels

JEWISH leaders challenged the European Union yesterday to begin a
campaign to remove the 'monster' of anti-Semitism from the Continent.
Cobi Benatoff, president of the European Jewish Congress, told a meeting
of political, religious and community leaders that the history of
prejudice and persecution that had afflicted Jews through the centuries
was repeating itself. "We bring a warning cry. We European Jews are not
able to live our daily lives like other European citizens. Anti-Semitism
and prejudice have returned," he said. "The monster is here with us
once again and what most concerns us is the in- difference of our fellow
European citizens." He insisted that the EU could not allow
anti-Semitism to survive and grow. The call for action came against the
background of an increase in attacks on Jews and their property in
countries including France, Italy, Belgium and Britain. Elie Wiesel, the
1986 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, yesterday accused left-wing groups of
fuelling the climate of hate with provocative language against Israel.
"No country, no region and no person is above criticism. But what the
extreme Left is saying about Israel is couched in the language of the
Holocaust," he said. In a newspaper article last month, Mr Benatoff and
Edgar Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress, had attacked the
European Commission for not doing more to confront the problem.
"Anti-Semitism can be expressed in two ways: by action and inaction.
Remarkably, the European Commission is guilty of both,? they wrote. In
particular they criticised the Commission for publishing a survey
indicating that European public opinion believed that Israel was a
greater threat to world peace than the 'axis of evil' trio of Iran, Iraq
and North Korea. They also accused it of preventing publication of a
study by the Vienna-based monitoring centre on racism and xenophobia,
which linked Islamic minority groups to the rise of anti-Semitism.
Romano Prodi, the Commission President, whose first foreign visit after
taking office in 1999 was to the remains of the Nazi death camp at
Auschwitz in Poland and who has developed close links with Jewish
leaders, was outraged by the criticism. Mr Benatoff praised Signor Prodi
yesterday for his 'courage, vision and wisdom', and urged him to lead
the fight. Speaking at the meeting, Signor Prodi condemned attacks
against synagogues, desecration of Jewish cemeteries and physical
assaults on Jews. But he spoke forcefully against the danger of equating
recent incidents with the organised policies pursued by Hitler and
Stalin.
The number of anti-Semitic attacks in Britain increased by 7 per
cent last year. There were 375 incidents recorded, compared with 350 the
previous year.The worst month of 2003 was October, when 57 incidents
were recorded, the second highest monthly total since records began in
1984.
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The EU is taking Europe in a direction that its citizens are
increasingly showing signs of not wishing to go. The history of the
continent stands witness to the lack of importance European leaders are
inclined give to the wishes or best interests of its citizens. It also
shows that its peoples can periodically be led in directions for which
they later feel great shame.

I do not hold that any one religion has greater truths or worth than
any other, nor do I believe that any race or nation nor any colour of
person has a monopoly or preponderence of virtues or vices than any
other. I support the nation state not from nationalism or excess of
patriotism, but rather because history has so far demonstrated that the
presently existing nation states have generally speaking proved to be
the largest units able to uphold the democratic rights and freedoms of
their individual citizens. I believe therefore that the nation state
needs protecting and that the open threats now being mounted against its
structures, particularly by the European Union, represent the greatest
possible danger to all European citizens, their individual rights,
democratic liberties and the fundamental decency that can only flow from
the maintenance of such values through an open democratic system, where
the real rulers can at regular set intervals be bloodlessly approved or
removed!

I do believe the revolution in information technology provides huge
opportunities to extend the democratic element of major policy making
and decision taking, and am dismayed that no attempt is yet being made
to apply those opportunities in the growing intranational bodies that
are becoming an increasingly burdensome part of everyday life due to the
demands of globalisation.

Tomorrow, the first anniversary of my first post, I will review the past year on this blog!

Those wishing to read my first posting, which made this anniversary worth recording, may find it on this link to the Samizdata website, where it first was published, it having been rejected on the EU Europa forums:

Is the hand-wringing of the French President this week, among the vandalised graves in a Jewish cemetery, really hearttfelt and genuine? Why were school children fourteen years ago in Toulouse taught such hate as part of Christmas?

How now can the Member States of the EU proceed from such a mess, that covers not just the economics disaster for Greece and the Euro, but the wasted bloodshed in the Eastern Ukraine too?

Friday, April 11, 2014

Millennium Blitzkrieg - How close 20 years on?

Millennium Blitzkrieg

My only novel, written during the very different decade of the 1990s, was designed to alert readers to what I saw as the growing evil that the European Project seemed on course to become. As the story was set to begin in April 2014 and end on the anniversary of the outbreak of World War One in July, now seems the right moment to compare my dire predictions with present day realities.

The Main Hero and the Villain

The British PM, apparently the hero of the story, is described as if mainly shaped by his Old Etonian past and cloistered upbringing, his shallowness of character steadily appearing as the story develops - with a somewhat surprising strength only emerging as the climax is reached. The villain of the piece, the German Chancellor, male in my tale, seems equally determined as the present incumbent to pursue German control of the European Continent with the same ruthlessness as Kaiser Wilhelm II, one hundred years before this book is set.

Part One of the story is introduced with the English Proverb, “Full of courtesy, full of craft”.

The First Ten Days

The short Prologue describes an incident at sea designed to illustrate the disregard for life and international law the EU at this then predicted forward point in time had grown to display.

The action in the early days of April 2014 is designed to convey the dire straits of the British economy, the vanity and fancies of its Prime Minister, the duplicity and scheming of the French EU Commission President, the real control of markets over the world economy and the virtual enslavement of ordinary people to computerised ATMs and EU control. Sex as the driving force behind the action is beginning to be made clear!

By Friday 11th April 2014, the actual day I now write this blog post, the novel has introduced the characters who will restore democracy to the EU and hinted at the means whereby such a resolution is made possible.

I will continue this backward look as we progress towards July 2014 and the novel’s end.I will post this on my @IroniesToo Twitter account using the #MillBlitz tag, should readers be interested in comments or discussion

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

British Government did plan to downplay Anzac WWI Role

I paste here below an extract from an email and its referenced press release, which clearly confirm our Government in the UK planned to downplay the ANZAC role in our victory in World War One, the benefits of which are today still being squandered by these same politicians, of all main parties, by our deep immersion within the EU.

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Dear Mr Cole

Britain Not To Recognise Our Anzacs

The
British government gave a press briefing recently in which they stated,
in essence, that the UK First World War celebrations would give
emphasis to coloured communities within Britain and not to what may be
generally termed as ‘the white skinned’ volunteers from countries like
Australia and New Zealand even though a significant proportion of our
troops were of differing ethnicities.

The
following media release has been sent to British media. Although not a
constitutional matter, our ANZACS fought for king and country and their
bravery should undoubtedly be recognised by the increasingly
‘politically correct’ administration in the United Kingdom.

(Email shortened from here)

Yours sincerely,

Philip Benwell

MEDIA RELEASE - THE ANZACS PLAYED MORE THAN THEIR PART TO SAVE BRITAIN

Australians
have a right to be outraged at the insensitivity of the British
government in announcing, in a briefing to journalists, that their
proposals to commemorate the commencement of the First World War would
omit mention of the sacrifice made by the Anzacs (Australia and New
Zealand servicemen) but instead would focus on the role played by the
‘new Commonwealth’ countries as part of an internal ‘community cohesion’
process.

Politics
should never play a part in recognising the bravery of those that are
gone. Many nations within the British Empire and Commonwealth fought to
save the homeland of Britain in both the First and Second World Wars.
Their losses should all be mourned collectively.

In
1914, Australia and New Zealand were both independent nations with
their own independent constitutions under the Crown. Our Anzacs lost
some 80,000 men in a war they didn’t have to get involved in, but
readily volunteered to fight for in foreign battlefields on the other
side of the world in loyalty and in gratitude to the country that
developed their lands into modern ‘law and order’ nations.

Doubtless
there will be a lot of backtracking and political hyperbole by British
officials and the sacrifice of our young men will in the end be
recognised. But that there was any hesitation on the part of what
appears to be an ungrateful Britain not to do this in the first place is
not only reprehensible but shows the disgraceful contempt of these
people for the history of their own country.

What
will be next on the agenda by these ‘politically correct’- the
whitewashing of Winston Churchill from British history books?

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Europe's Illness Illustrated in Images

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Are YOU content for the EU & UK politicos to be party to every detail of your life?

The latest communication that I have received from Anne Palmer, is copied below. I think as PM David Cameron appointed his own man, a senior Tory Grandee as the Head of the Intelligence oversight arrangements for the UK, such questions for MPs suggested by retired JP Anne Palmer, are particularly important for us all! Is all our personal data now available to the big political parties, such awesome power makes a mockery both of democracy and individual freedoms, never mind that old-fashioned concept of privacy

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Did
YOUR MP agree to implement this EU Directive or did they object? Why not ask Him
or Her?

Mrs
Merkel seems a tad upset that she, along with other 'important people' are
being spied on by the USA. Perhaps this might bring home to ALL our
Leaders in the EU and especially those in our own Parliament that are supposed
to Govern and protect us, how we felt and feel when the EU eagerly
brought in THEIR legislation to spy on each and every one of us
"ordinary" people through their "Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC.
But is it being enforced here in the United Kingdom? Surely
not. Surely your MP did not vote for this? Why not write
and ask HIM or HER if they did indeed vote for the EU Directive to go through
to spy on each and every one of us here in the UK? Will our own elected Politicians obey these EU Directives that
want, need and must have every tiny detail of what we are watching and who we
are contacting? Our Government really should let us know, for so
many gave their lives for our freedom. Surely the people of this
Country will never forget or forgive them if they have betrayed the people of
this Country if they have put this intrusive legislation through? Knowing that
they deliberately betray all those that sacrificed their lives so that we may live
in FREEDOM.

Many
people however, just like Mrs Merkel herself believed that those she
worked with would not stoop as low as the EU did when THEY spied on many
ordinary people throughout the EU through the EU's 'Snoopers Directive
2006/24/EC? Has this Government accepted or implemented the Data
Retention Directive? Would our own Government deliberately betray their
own people by accepting this intrusive Legislation? If Mrs Merkel didn't
know she was being “monitored” are our own Politicians as well us being
monitored? What else do the people here
in the UK not know? Please do ask your own MP if He or SHE did indeed vote FOR
this intrusive legislation. Anne

The EU Data Retention Directive

The
UK is in full compliance with this EU wide Directive,
and is one of the countries who most often access and act upon the information
obtained as a result of it. It does this with
little or no judicial oversight, and over 200 agencies and police have been
authorized to access personal data logged by ISPs and VPN providers, including
the following:

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Independence or Oppression by China or a New Hansa?

The visit to China by UK Finance Minister Osborne and the Mayor of London Johnson, highlights the stark choices facing democrats and believers in individual liberty who populate both the East and West coastal regions of the North Atlantic ocean and its islands.

The Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549, read here, the spark for which was a religious matter, was more likely a punitive venture by the dying Hanseatic League into the home territories of the adventurers and seafarers, who along with their colleagues from Brittany, Gascony/SW France; the Basque Country and Navarre were challenging their hegemony and the rights of Spain to keep the New World trade all to itself. The British Crown and City Corporation seem to have then been under Hanseatic control, which was not broken until the reign of Elizabeth I, and the establishment of the Exeter Guild of Merchant Adventurers, in the earliest years of her reign; read here in pdf.

Will Britain fight the growing world trade power of China from within the EU, so remaining under similar non-democratic control as applies in China itself? Or can we once again cast aside the shackles of continental hegemony and unite with the heirs of such Merchant Adventurers everywhere, new enemies of despotic collectivism, often still living along both coastal reigions of the North Atlantic, while restoring where necessary, our own sovereign democracy. That, IMHO is the issue of our times!

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Protecting Value in a World of QE & Fiat Currencies

In the posting immediately beneath this may be found a blog entry made at the start of last weekend concerning the tragic tale of treason perpetrated against the people of Britain by their rulers over recent decades.

To complement that posting, I would here like to review another publication, which while touching upon some similar aspects of our slide towards EU tyranny, more explicitly highlights the wealth destroying aspects of this voracious new form of collective despotism, some have chosen to label post democracy.

Saxo Bank have issued a series of papers under the generalised heading: "Trading Debates White Papers". To provide a general feel of the stature of the authors and the direct pithiness of the views expressed I first offer a few quotes:

Chapter One by Lars Seier Christiansen "Merkel's Lack of Vision is the Achilles' Heel of Europe"'To be loyal towards your rulers in Brussels and disloyal to your own population often equals a great job and plenty of distinctions and stars, along with the illusion of political significance among your friends.'

Chapter Two by Vaclav Klaus "The Shattering of Illusions" 'On the contrary, Western Europe eagerly and voluntarily accepted die Soziale Marktwirkschaft (the Social Market economy). This unproductive, paternalistic, excessively over-regulated socio-economic system became further decimated in the following decades by the arrival of the market-hostile green ideolody of environmentalism.'

'Greece made one fatal error-- to enter the Eurozone.'

'..their way of thinking was evidently based on an almost communistic type of reasoning.'

'The EU has conquered Europe and deprived it of its democracy.'

Chapter Three by Nigel Farage "Is the UK Better Off Outside the EU" 'It is a tragedy that for the sake of an experiment,tens of millionsof people in Southern Europe are being forced into poverty and misery.'(On Cameron and Coalition) 'This is clearly a Prime Minister not in control and a government in total disarray''The EU is not just undemocratic it is fundamentally anti-democratic'

The above I believe gives an ample taste of the quality of the comment and depths of the criticism of the EU; but there then follows paper after paper of financial advice from various experts at the Saxo Bank on the cost implications of the disaster now clearly underway, as laid out in the earlier papers. These titles cover a range of subjects, for example, "Is Merkel's Victory Europe's Wake-up Call?" through QE, the Euro and the Oil Markets to end bang up to date with a questioning paper entitled, "Forward Guidance, the Latest Fad".

All the above conclusions, of course, were predicted on my various blogs for more than ten years, but here in one downloadable file, ready for reading at will, (with the consequences which I previously could merely foretell), are now detailed as fait accompli.

There are limited free copies available at this website: www.tradingdebates.com Eventually, I hope the "White Papers" may also be put on sale, in which case I will post details on this blog.

I left the world of oil and gas trading long ago, but were I a trader today, it would be a comfort to know that there was a financial institution with such clear insight on the state of the West, offering tools to try and preserve value, in such uncertain times, and with such faltering and misguided political leadership as we see today all across the EU!

NB: Martin Cole has no connections with Saxo Bank nor has he received payment of any kind in writing this freely offered review! Nor has it been submitted to Saxo Bank nor to the Authors of the quoted papers, for their prior review. Like all else on my blogs and Twitter, it is what I think, that's all!

Saturday, October 12, 2013

The EU Conspirators compound their treason

Removing our democracy, rendering the nation subject to rule by foreigners and destroying our individual liberties and freedoms is all clearly treasonable. Combine all these EU related infringements and manoeuvrings with the activities of GCHQ, as revealed by Edward Snowden, and Britain quite clearly has a very major problem concerning individual citizen's rights.

This blog has from time to time posted in full the thoughts and writings of retired JP Anne Palmer. We do so again today. As it is the weekend, please find time to read it and give it as wide a circulation as you feel able. We "the people" are the victims, but will only obtain redress by acting together to protest in the greatest possible numbers:

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Regarding
TREASON10.10.2013.Anne PalmerThis Government, a
little while before the new Royal Baby was born, changed (allegedly)
nine separate parts of our Constitution-I believe, to be in keeping with the
EU’s Equality Act,although this was
denied by the Government.There is no
explanation other than for the EU Equality Act.I wrote three
separate letters in three separate months to the Prime Minister regarding the
proposed changes. (20. 2.2013.23. 3. 2013.15.4.2013.)I had no reply until
AFTER the Succession to the Crown Bill became an ACT.As the Commonwealth Countries had agreed to
these then proposed changes-which I was already aware of through our Prime
Ministers and Mr Hague’s attendance at the Commonwealth meetings.

On the 17.6.2013.
From the Cabinet Office,4th
Floor (SE) 1 House Guards Rd,
London SW1H 2HQDated simply, June 2013.These are four
paragraphs from the letter sent to me in response to my three letters on the
subject.“Thank you for your recent
correspondence to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, on the Succession to the
Crown Bill, in particular you believe that the legislation is not
required.I am responding as a member of
the team working on Constitutional Reform.I am sorry for the delay in dealing with this matter, this is due to an
administrative error”.

“The Prime Minister announced at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Perth
on 28 October 2011 that, with the agreement of the fifteen other Commonwealth
realms of which her Majesty is also Head of State, the government would change
the rules of royal succession to end the system of male preference
primogeniture and the bar on those who marry Roman Catholics from succeeding to
the Throne and repeal and replace the Royal Marriages Act 1772”.

“The government received final agreement
from all the remaining Commonwealth Realms in December and the Bill was
introduced into the House of Commons shortly after.Firstly, I would like to point out that
changes to the laws of succession are not due to pressure from Europe or from the Equality Act but from a reasonable
need to progress and evolve.The Prime
Minister states on 28 October 2011: “The great strength of our constitutional
approach is its ability to evolve.Attitudes have changed fundamentally over the centuries and some of the
our-dated rule – like some of the rules to succession – just don’t make sense
to us any more.”

“The Deputy Prime Minister also stated
on 22 January 2013 that: “On female succession, the real question that we
need to ask is why it has taken us so long.This is a nation that prises itself on pioneering equality between
sexes:a nation of great Queens such as Queen Victoria and Elizabeth II.A woman can, and has, been Head of the UK
Government, yet still on our statute books, with Parliament’s official backing,
we have succession laws based on the supposed superiority of men.That anachronism is out of step with our
society, it sends the wrong message to the rest of the world, and it is time
for the rules to change.”“We believe
that the government’s commitment to end male primogeniture and the bar on the
Monarch and those in the line of succession from marrying a Roman Catholic will
end two significant areas of discrimination in the UK”.End of Quotes.

There was not and
there has not been any attempt at all to put these proposed changes before
the people of this Country. WHY NOT? Yet it has been put to the Governments of
the Commonwealth. The very people that these changes would affect mostly
and to their long standing Common Law Constitution which would and will
indeed affect us all, very much so, if these changes were indeed be possible to
change.Many people, ordinary people
fought and died in two World Wars to keep their way of life and their very
Constitution the Governments of “TODAY” have tried to alter.This cannot be done without the people of
this Country agreeing because each and every one of us live by (and
some gave their young lives for) the very Constitution that this
Government has tried to change.Not, I suggest for the coming baby, for had they waited until it was
born, a son, there would have been no need for any attempt for Constitutional
change at all, but of course, there would have been no excuse to change the
nine necessary parts of our Constitution for the EU’s Equality Act.There was absolutely no need to TRY to change
our Constitution at all. Our Constitution, I suggest, cannot be so changed
without the people’s of this Country’s permission.It is noted that Magna Carta cannot be
changed at all (See further below) and neither can the people’s Bill of Rights
because of the two codicils at the end of the Bill of Rights, stating
such.If we had lost a WAR, all
Governance of our Country would be gone-lost forever.No new written constitution can be entrenched or
dislodge Magna Carta and the Declaration and Bill of Rights 1688/1689.
However, what Parliament does, Parliament can undo.Also
made clear is that the use of the Prerogative Power may not be subversive of
the rights and liberties of the subject. (Which includes the people’s Bill of
Rights and Magna Carta of course (See case of Nichols v Nicholes,
“Prerogative is created for the benefit of the people and cannot be
exercised to their prejudice”)The Bill of Rights 1689 is a
declaration of Common law. It is also an operative statute and it contains the
Oath of Allegiance, which is required by Magna Carta to be taken by all Crown
servants including members of the Armed Forces, MP's and the Judiciary.
They are required also to "take into consequence anything to the detriment
of the subjects liberties”.The Monarch
is constitutionally bound to respect the Common Laws, which are recognised in
Magna Carta and declared in the Bill of Rights and so bound by Her Majesty's
Coronation Oath. The Royal Prerogatives of the Crown and Parliament were set by
Common Law and cannot be lawfully infringed by them.Each British Subject from the moment they are
born here in the UK
is bound by an Oath of Allegiance to the Crown and this country, just as if
that person has declared so out loud.

From
the Bill of Rights.
II. And be it further declared and enacted by the authority
aforesaid, that from and after this present session of Parliament no
dispensation by _non obstante_ of or to any statute or any part thereof shall
be allowed, but that the same shall be held void and of no effect,
except a dispensation be allowed of in such statute, and except in such cases
as shall be specially provided for by one or more bill or bills to be passed
during this present session of Parliament.

I now ask the question previously asked
by others, How can a ‘Citizen of Europe’be Queen of our Nation and the Commonwealth? No wonder this Government
have tried to repeal the Laws of Treason? Those Treason Laws are there still, and
are ENTRENCHED to protect the wearer of the Crown of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and even though the 1795 Treason Act was
allegedly repealed in full instead of just “Death by Hanging” in the 1998 Crime
And Disorder Act, if people care to dig a little deeper they will find that the
Treason Laws remain there to protect the Crown, and although Terrorism Laws may
be used where it might have been better to use the laws on Treason, Terrorism
Laws are no alternative for violation of the Oath of Allegiance because violation
of that Oath that is made to the wearer of the British Crown is the greatest
betrayal of all.

It has been said that there are only four
clauses left in Magna Carta.Proof that
Magna Carta remains complete is recorded in Hansard, for many are the times
clauses have been quoted to prove an argument. I have over a hundred pages
printed where Magna Carta has been mentioned-I stopped looking after one
hundred, to back up, or enforce or protect legislation.The last time Clause 61 was used, was by four
Lords at the time of NICE-a clause that was allegedly repealed.Magna Carta is a Treaty and it needs the
people’s consent to alter.

I quote Lord Renton when he said (Lords Hansard 20th July6
2000)“My Lords, before the noble
Lord sits down, perhaps I might mention one point in relation to his
fascinating speech.He suggests that we
should amend Magna Carta.We cannot do
that.Magna Carta was formulated before
we ever had a Parliament.All that we
can do is to amend that legislation which, in later years when we did have a
Parliament, implemented Magna Carta”.

Parliament was reminded of the Bill of
Rights after the Case of Pepper v Hart when the Speaker at that time said,
“This case has exposed our proceedings to possible questioning in a way that
was previously thought to be impossible.There has of course been no amendment to the Bill of Rights.I am sure that the House is entitled to
expect that the Bill of Rights will be required to be fully respected by all
those appearing before the Courts.”

Quote from Govermnment Research Paper 18th
July 1996. Page 38. “Many, including Dicey himself,
have sought to distinguish between legal sovereignty and political
Sovereignty.Indeed Dicey regarded the
Queen-in-Parliament(ie, the legal body
comprising the two Houses and the Monarch) as the legal sovereign and the
electorate as the political sovereign.This latter point is the British version of what in many other
constitutions is the idea of ‘the people’ as the true sovereign, a political
concept which is often invoked to confer upon the constitution moral authority
and binding force as the supreme source of legal power.Perhaps the most famous example of this is
the constitution of the United
States.(We the people…)”

Page22. “Mr Major announced a concerted
Ministerial campaign on all aspects of the Constitution: “This will be the most
thorough debate on the constitution for a generation’ He concluded his speech
by emphasising the Conservative approach of supporting “practical change that
would solve real problems or improve the way our constitution works….I don’t
make any apology for defending what works.I‘m a Conservative and I reject change for change’s sake…Our
constitution is the lifeblood of the United Kingdom.It upholds our freedom.It binds Parliament and the Government to the
citizen.It provides the checks and
balances that prevent abuse of power. It cements the Union
together.”

Even as those MP’s step forward in
the House of Commons to place their hand on the Bible and swear the Oath, that
Oath ends with the words , "ACCORDING TO LAW". This is the
Executive ECHOING the Queen's own Coronation Oath. There are TWO OATHS
operative here, to protect the nation and the people. The Queen's
Oath, and the Oath of her Executive to her. They are interlocking oaths to
respect the RULE OF LAW at all times.

Anne Palmer. JP
Retired

The oath of allegiance has its origins in the Magna Carta,
signed on 15 June 1215.

Once the terms
had been finalised on 19 June, the rebels again swore allegiance to King John.
The later Bill of Rights (1689) included the Oath of Allegiance to the Crown,
which was required by Magna Carta to be taken by all crown servants and members
of the judiciary.[6][7]

Monday, October 07, 2013

Why Cameron wants to push EU Referendum beyond 31st March 2017

Last evening I received a message from an always reliable source the essence of which is the following:

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On the 1st November 2014
the right of Parliament to legislate over us in 43 areas, the important
ones, will be removed and be made subject to approval, by majority vote
of the lying undemocratic and unelected bastards fronting the EU.
They call it QMV, Quality Majority Voting, which translates in English to: You’ll do what we tell you, or else.
Heath
– Thatcher – Major – Blair – Brown, are all, by allowing this, acting
in High Treason, but as every important Government post is now held by
an EU Common Purpose trained thug, waiting to take over from elected
local government officials from 1st November 2014, there seems to be little we can do about it.
Below, are the 43 areas of ‘competence’, areas we British have been declared incompetent to decide for ourselves.

A brief review of the Treaties confirms the substance of the above. Transitional arrangements allow, only on specific votes, for the Nice Treaty Provisions to apply from 1st November 2014 until March 2017, hence I imagine PM David Cameron's determination to delay our referendum beyond that date, tying Britain for ever within the non-democratic, totalitarian and now clearly despotic EU.

All Parliamentarians must be made aware of the deep danger the nation now faces when casting their vote on the 2014 Referendum possibility that Adam Afriyie's referendum amendment has suddenly appeared to provide.

Monday, September 30, 2013

A Worrying Week for the Western World

The USA which has led the West for decades is in deep debt and deeper political crisis read here.

Italy faces a vote of no confidence in its Government.

Britain's oldest political party has been abandoned by its natural supporters and at a demonstration against the party at its annual conference has appeared to be filtering the live news feed to its once respected state broadcasting corporation, the BBC.

Germany lacks a government following an election campaign where the true economic issues facing the Euro and thus the EU were obscured from the voters. Thereby neutering the entire EU from confronting the problems now facing Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Italy, Spain and others.

Greece has arrested democratically elected MPs for belonging to a criminal organisation which appears to refer to the political party attaining recent popular electoral success.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Are Ed Balls' denials of McBride's book credible?

Monday, September 23, 2013

Europe threatened with German control for the 3rd time in 100years

The German election result is, quite frankly, a disaster for Europe.

The fact that less than five per cent of German voters would vote for an alternative to Merkel's policies in recent years is chilling. That fact was announced in the following report on the official election result by Deutsche Welle:

The euroskeptic Alternative for Germany (AfD) party took 4.7 percent,
meaning that like the FDP, they fell short of the 5 percent hurdle

The Euro will march on to the added misery of all in the Eurozone but also others in the EU.

Friday, September 20, 2013

Blair/Brown How Britain's decency was sold out by New Labour

My blogs Ironies and this, its successor, Ironies Too over more than ten years covered in detail the rape of Britain by New Labour. Some of the detail is now starting to emerge, so to hopefully complete this sick story and record that New Labour death and disgrace, I will include links as the truth finally emerges.

To begin these links, a report in the Daily Telegraphthis morning and another in The Independent of yesterday. I will provide links as appropriate to the Ironies and Ironies Too posts of the time as detail is revealed, hopefully the truth on Dr Kelly will be one such item!

Sunday, August 18, 2013

The Rape of the Countryside by EU Hi-Speed Rail

The LGV high speed train project, imposed on a nearly bankrupt France by the EU, gives those about to be similarly HS2 blighted within the UK a chance to see what damage such unnecessary and wasteful projects, merely duplicating existing rail systems, cause to the surrounding countryside. The extra lorry congestion and other miseries cannot be captured in snaps like these, all of which were taken today and all close by my home.

This first looks north towards the Charente river valley, the lovely hillside on which the old farm on the right sits, is where the white scar of the railway line, for fat bloated and EU corrupted bureaucrats, is being driven. The next two show how close the trains will pass to this farm which sits alongside the ancient Romanesque church at Porcheress:

Once cut through this hillside the track emerges to be elevated close-by the town of Blanzac, where the work continues since several years with many more such lying ahead:

So it continues northwards towards Angoulême and Poitiers; Further shots near Blanzac are here:

Saturday, August 10, 2013

A Summer Afternoon

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Why EU Decisions must always be sub-Optimal for each Member State

I realise that a mere five days ago I resolved not to post on the topic of the EU again on this blog, and that remains my firm intention, however yesterday morning I was involved in a twitter exchange with Jonathan Faull, a senior Eurocrat presently serving the whims of EU Commissioner Barnier for Competition and the Single Market. I am pasting them below as for me they briefly encapsulate why the EU is doomed or can only proceed on a 100% "Best for Germany" basis:

@FaullJonathan
Nationally, in Parliament there is a Common Goal and the substance
diverts decisions. EU has none of this & decision pre-set>

Happily we now have decades of actual experience which demonstrates both the flawed outcomes and pampered elites of the #EU

I thought it worth posting these whilst at the same time correcting a typo in my earlier "EU etc., last posting"!

Let's face it the lesson of all these years was, as I made clear in my novel "Millennium Bltzkrieg" written in the mid to late nineteen-nineties, that the EU can only be good for one single former nation and that will be the strongest, all others will suffer, lose their democracy and bear the deep corruption and likely authoritarianism all now apparently for nothing but the wealth of their political leadership (...and power of their seconded nationals to its institutions?)

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Three individuals are now in line to a debased & despoiled Monarchy.

Yesterday was an historic moment by the mere fact that for apparently the first time in history there are today three individuals in line to ithe diretc inheritance of the British Crown, Prince Charles, Prince William and yesterday's newborn baby boy.

The reign of Queen Elizabeth II has been long and scrupulously fulfilled in so far as the detail and ceremony of the role has been concerned. With regard to the main aspects incorporated in her Coronation Oath, the obligation to rule free from foreign influence and in accordance with the traditions of her people it has regrettably failed as is all too plainly visible in almost every detail of the average Briton's daily life.

This blogger has also failed in his objective to halt and turn back the encroachments of the EU. This week I will turn sixty-nine years and I have written and done all I could on these blogs without any prospect of affecting the course of events, as made clear by the grotesque publication of the Government's Review of EU Competencies, read here, combined with plans for taxpayers to further finance a renewed housing bubble by lending cash for deposits to couples unable to afford them, read here.

There is no sense or point in railing against clear insanity to those determiined to utterly delude themselves!

I may from time to time point out the latest stupidity as it involves Britain and the EU, otherwise this blog will, in the main, hold its typist's finger!